Josef ziegler



PATENT OFFICE.

J OSEF ZIEGLER, OF BIEBRIOH, GERMANY.

CHINOLINCHINOPHENOL-SULPHATE AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,363, dated November15, 1892.

Application filed September 14:, 1891. Serial No. 405,679- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEF ZIEGLER, of Biebrich, in the Kingdom ofPrussia and German Empire, have invented a new and use-' ful Process ofManufacturing Ohinolinchinophenol-Sulphate, of which the following is aspecification.

Thisinvention relates to a process ofmanufacturingchin01inchinophenol-sulphate. After having succeeded inobtaining oxychinolin in a much simpler manner than before it becameobvious that this substance might be employed for disinfecting purposeswith very great advantage if it could by any available means be obtainedin a soluble form. I have accordingly instituted a series ofinvestigations and experiments which have enabled me to prepare a newsoluble salt or derivative of oxychinolin which forms, among otherthings, a most valuable disinfectant.

The soluble substance which I have obtained and which is the subject ofthis invention is chinolinehinophenol-sulphate, (chinophenol-sulphute ofchinolin,)and it may be prepared in the manner hereinafter described.

To a solution of two hundred and seventysix kilos oforthoxychinolin-sulphate in seven hundred and two liters of water I addone hundred and twenty-nine kilos of chinolin and boil the mixture in asuitable vessel provided with an inverted condenseruntil asample takenfrom the bulk after having been cooled appears clear and when shaken inether none of the sample becomes dissolved therein.

Instead of proceeding as hereinbefore described I may produce thechinolinchinophenol-sulphateby heatingone hundred and twenty-nine kilosof chinolin with ninety-eight kilos of sulphuric acid of about 66 Baumeand two hundred and thirty-eight liters of water, thus producing theknown sulphate of chinolin. To this about five hundred liters of waterand one hundred and forty-five kilos of orthoxychinolin are added andthe whole is boiled until complete combination occurs that is to say,until a test sample treated with ether gives neither free chinolin noroxychin- 01in; In any case it is unnecessary to first prepare either thesulphate of chinolin or the sulphate of oxychinolin in the solid form,as either of these substances maybe combined with the chinolin or withthe oxychinolin directly in an aqueous solution or in aqueous solutions.The same resulting compound is always obtained and it may be sold andused in the original solution. If it be desired to obtain the substancein the solid form, the solution may be heated in a Vacuum-pan attemperatures below 100 centigrade and carefully evaporated until ayellow solid is obtained; or sulphate of oxychinolin, (C H NO- H SO 2HO,) which may be obtained by the process covered by my patent, No.466,708, of January 5, 1892, may be heated in molecular proportions withchinolin until the chemical combination of the two substances has beenefieeted.

The chinolinchinophenol sulphate when carefully evaporated is asulphur-yellow powder possessing a slight odor of chinolin, very readilysoluble in water, forms a thick mass at 96 centigrade, and is fusible at114 centigrade.

The watery solution of the compound when combined with trichloride ofiron assumes a blue-green color, which on the addition of hydrochloricacid disappears and changes to a bright yellow. When an excess ofhydrate of potassium or soda is added to the watery solution, chinolinseparates out in the form of oil, while chinophenol or oxychinolinremains in the solution in the form of a salt of soda. The chinolin canbe separated by means of a separating-funnel or by steam. Whensufficient acetic acid is added to the solution to produce a slight acidreaction,the oxychinolin falls out. In the solid state the compoundexternally resembles fused chloride of iron, and, like this substance,it can be preserved in this state only in the absence of moisture, as itis Very hygroscopic.

The formula for chinolinchinophenol-sulphate is as follows:

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O-N-I-LOJL ONHO H .OI-I, or, more in detail, as follows:

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. The herein-described method of producing a solublesaltchinolinchinophenol-sulpl1atefrom orthoxychinolin and chinolin,which consists in heating a mixture of one of said substances and asulphate of the other, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the sulphur-yellow powder ofchin0linchin0phenol-sulphate possessing a slight odor of chinolin veryreadily soluble in water, forming a thick mass at 96 centigrade, whichis fusible at 114 centigrade, and having the formula hereinbefore setforth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEF ZIEGLER.

Witnesses:

ALvEsTo S. IIOGUE,

FRANK H. MAS N.

